Airports & Networks

Our Route Opportunities feature explores the latest unserved and underserved routes promoted through Routes 360, providing supporting information for airline network planners to consider and capitalize on.

During Routes Europe 2024 Budapest Airport shared its recent successes, key targets, and what it meant to be named the Overall Winner at the Routes Awards.

Routes 360 members share their latest insights and notable developments this week.

At the 2024 IATA Annual General Meeting in Dubai, IATA leadership focused on sustainability and partnership, while questions of supply chain issues lingered.

Ethiopian Airlines Group said June was an ‘outstanding’ month of growth and expansion.

Following the opening of its new terminal A in November 2023, Zayed International Airport (formerly Abu Dhabi International) is on an upward trajectory expecting to handle around 45 million passengers annually. Gigi King investigates.

SITA has announced record results for 2023 as revenues reached almost US$ 1.5 billion.

A new agreement between South Korea and the Philippines increases weekly capacity on flights connecting Seoul and Manila.

Speaking at Routes Europe 2024 Tallinn Airport, located within Estonia’s capital city, discussed its recent route successes and growing inbound tourism market.

After clearing a key regulatory hurdle, Garuda Indonesia and Singapore Airlines can operate joint revenue-sharing flights and coordinate flight schedules.

Gulf Air launched its new direct flights from Bahrain to Munich, Germany, on July 1, 2024.

Wizz Air UK's Marion Geoffroy says summer operational challenges have begun earlier than usual, while the ULCC is still struggling with GTF-related groundings.

The Airport Authority of Hong Kong (AAHK) is optimistic that passenger volume at HKIA will return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of this year.

Heathrow CEO Thomas Woldbye says a third runway is still more than a decade away, but welcomed comments the UK's incoming Treasury chief.

Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) in Pennsylvania is reporting surging passenger traffic, with July expected to be a record-breaking month at the airport.

IGA Istanbul Airport CEO Selahattin Bilgen speaks about transplanting one of Europe's busiest airports to a new site in 33 hr., as well as operational plans.

Volotea and EasyJet are ready to act as "remedy takers," taking slots and/or routes to help ensure the approval of Lufthansa’s ITA Airways stake purchase plan.

King Khalid International Airport is the international gateway to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The airport is managed and operated by the Riyadh Airports Company.

Malta International Airport, also known as Luqa Airport, is the main international airport serving the country of Malta and the Maltese Archipelago.

ADB Safegate, a provider in airside solutions for airports, has been awarded a contract for the Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL) system at Bhogapuram Airport, India.

Representatives from Aena told Routes about recent market success and how it plans to increase operations across its airport portfolio.

During Routes Europe 2024, Isle of Man Airport spoke to Routes about its recent successes in air connectivity and plan for sustained growth.

Routes and Low Season Traveller will bring together thought-leaders from destinations, airports and airlines on October 8 at Routes World in Bahrain.

Norway is pressing ahead with its plans to bring remote-control towers to smaller airports and airfields throughout the country.

Emirates has delayed introducing its new Airbus A350-900s on all but one of its planned initial group of routes following delivery delays of the aircraft.